Psychology

Child and Adolescent Development: An Advanced Course

by William Damon & Richard M. M. Lerner

This advanced text for psychology, human development, and education provides students with state-of-the-art overviews of the discipline in an accessible, affordable format. Unique both in the depth of its coverage...

Neuroscience of Cognitive Development: The Role of Experience and the Developing Brain

by Charles A. A. Nelson, Kathleen M. M. Thomas & Michelle de de Haan

A new understanding of cognitive development from the perspective of neuroscience

This book provides a state-of-the-art understanding of the neural bases of cognitive development. Although the field of developmental...

Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship

by John Phd Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman & Joan Declaire

In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washingto— made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict—with more than 90...

Learning to be a Person in Society

by Peter Jarvis

Learning is a lifelong process and we are the result of our own learning. But how exactly do we learn to be a person through living? In this book, Peter Jarvis draws together all the aspects of becoming a person...

Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals

by Richard Sears, John Rudisill & Carrie Mason-Sears

Consultation interventions are an increasingly popular alternative to clinical practice, allowing the practitioner to interact with and affect many different individuals and organizations. This type of work...

The Sexual Abuse Victim and Sexual Offender Treatment Planner

by Rita Budrionis & Arthur E. , Jr. Jongsma

The Sexual Abuse Victim and Sexual Offender Treatment Planner provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies,...

Child and Adolescent Therapy: Science and Art

by Jeremy P. P. Shapiro, Robert D. D. Friedberg & Karen K. K. Bardenstein

This comprehensive guide to child therapy provides a thorough introduction to the principles and practice of psychotherapy with children and adolescents. It provides balanced coverage of child therapy theory,...

A Practical Guide for the Humanistic Psychotherapist

by Anne Ginger, Serge Ginger & Jean-Marc Jacot

'This book is not just a practical handbook; it is also the fruit of two exceptional people's experience: Serge and Anne Ginger. It reflects their long international experience in several methods such as psychoanalysis,...

The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism

by Raul Moncayo

Within the context of a careful review of the psychology of religion and prior non-Lacanian literature on the subject, Raul Moncayo builds a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism that steers...

Sacred Architecture of London

by Nigel Pennick

London has a unique series of churches built after the Great Fire of 1666, when most of the City of London was destroyed. Among these iconic churches are St Paul's, St Mary-le-Bow, St Bride's, St Clement Danes,...

The Christopher Bollas Reader

by Christopher Bollas

This reader brings together a selection of seminal papers by Christopher Bollas.

Essays such as "The Fascist State of Mind," "The Structure of Evil," and "The Functions of History" have established his position...

The Method of Normal Forms

by Ali H. H. Nayfeh

Based on a successful text, this second edition presents different concepts from dynamical systems theory and nonlinear dynamics. The introductory text systematically introduces models and techniques and states...

The School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner

by Sarah Edison Edison Knapp, Arthur E. , Jr. Jongsma & Carey Dimmitt

The Bestselling treatment planning system For mental health professionals

The School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner, Second Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily...

The Psychotherapy Documentation Primer

by Donald E. E. Wiger

Everything you need to know to record client intake, treatment, and progress—incorporating the latest managed care, accrediting agency, and government regulations

Paperwork and record keeping are day-to-day...

Principles of Training

by Alice F. F. Healy & Jr., Lyle E. Bourne

Training is both a teaching and a learning experience, and just about everyone has had that experience. Training involves acquiring knowledge and skills. This newly acquired training information is meant to...

Insight: Essays on Psychoanalytic Knowing

by Jorge L. L. Ahumada

This book explores the clinical processes of psychoanalysis by charting modern developments in logic and applying them to the study of insight.  Offering an epistemic approach to clinical psychoanalysis this...

Disruption, Aggression, and Violence in Higher Education

by Brian Van Van Brunt

With the growth of threats and violence in higher education settings, college campuses are increasingly expected to have systems in place to identify potentially aggressive individuals and intervene to ensure...

Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools: Enabling Creativity, Sociability, Communication and Learning

by Lauraine Leigh, Irvine Gersch & Ann Dix

Dramatherapy with Children, Young People and Schools is the first book to specifically evaluate the unique value of dramatherapy in the educational environment. A variety of highly experienced dramatherapists,...

Groups in Practice: A School Counselor's Collection

by Debra Madaris Madaris Efird

This practical, user-friendly manual will provide school counselors with the information they need to set up and run twelve different counseling groups. Though the author has test-driven the groups with middle...

CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast- Paced Life

by Edward M. Md Hallowell

Are you too busy? Are you always running behind? Is your calendar loaded with more than you can possibly accomplish? Is it driving you crazy? You’re not alone. CrazyBusy–the modern phenomenon of brain overload–is...